An unsuspecting Roy Moore stormed out of an interview with prankster Sacha Baron Cohen after the costumed comedian, pretending to be an Israeli anti-terror expert, waved a fake pedophile-detecting device over the politician.

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The segment featured Cohen’s character, Gen. Erran Morad, telling Moore that Israel had created a hand-held device capable of detecting sex offenders. Moore, a former Senate candidate from Alabama, was accused of sexual misconduct by multiple women, including one, Leigh Corfman, who claimed the politician sexually abused her when she was 14.

“It turns out sex offenders and particularly pedophiles secrete an enzyme for DDHT, which is actually detectable,” Cohen, in character, says to Moore. “It is three times the level as non-perverts. So the phrase ‘sweating like a rapist’ is actually based on science. So in Israel they've developed a machine that is used in schools to detect anyone coming in, and if they detect the pedophile, the wand alerts the law enforcement and the schools within a hundred-mile radius.”

Cohen then began to wave the wand over himself, and it didn’t make any noise. When he waved it over Moore, the device started beeping.

“It must be faulty,” Cohen said in a fake Israeli accent. “It’s malfunctioning.”

The machine continued to beep every time he placed it over Moore, but not when he removed it.

“I’ve been married for 33. I never had an accusation of such things,” Moore says to Cohen. “If this is an instrument, then certainly I’m not a pedophile.”

In April, Moore — who lost to Democratic candidate Doug Jones in the special election last year — sued Corfman for defamation and slander. Cohen released a statement on Sunday claiming that he would also consider legal action against Cohen.

“I am involved in several court cases presently to defend my honor and character against vicious false political attacks by liberals like Cohen,” Moore stated.

The previous week’s “Who is America?” also made headlines, as it featured Cohen, dressed as the same character, tricking Georgia lawmaker Jason Spencer into committing offensive behavior as part of a fake anti-terrorism training video.

Georgia officials have since condemned Spencer, who shouted the N-word four times during the segment and also pulled down his pants after Cohen told him he can scare away ISIS members by touching them with his backside.

Former Vice President Dick Cheney and would-be V.P. Sarah Palin have also been duped by Cohen.